Prevent and Alleviate Upper Body Aches And Pains – 11 Upper Body Foam Rolling Moves

Prevent and Alleviate Upper Body Aches And Pains – 11 Upper Body Foam Rolling Moves

The first step in preventing and alleviating upper body aches and pains is to relax tight muscles to help start correcting imbalances and restore normal muscle length-tension relationships.

That means you must foam roll.

Foam rolling can help you relax tight muscles so that you can then stretch, activate and strength to get the correct muscles working. If you don’t first loosen tight muscles, you may not be engaging the correct muscles when you workout.

And if you aren’t engaging the correct muscles, you may only be perpetuating imbalances, compensations and injury.

Below are 11 Upper Body Foam Rolling Moves to help you correct imbalances and loosen tight muscles caused by sitting hunched over a computer all day so that you can prevent and alleviate injuries.

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